Strawberry Notes vs CollaNote
CollaNote is a free Apple Pencil app for notes, PDFs, planners, and flashcards, with a cheap one-time Premium upgrade. It's great for planner fans and for writing notes with friends. Strawberry Notes is built for studying, with spaced repetition, AI quizzes, infinite pages, and linked notes in one simple, private app.
Go with CollaNote if…
- You want a free app with a cheap one-time upgrade
- You want to write on the same notes with friends, live
- You love planners, stickers, and paper templates
- You want audio recordings that follow your writing
Go with Strawberry Notes if…
- You want flashcards with spaced repetition and image occlusion
- You want AI to make quizzes and study guides from your notes
- You want an infinite notebook and whiteboard with infinite zoom
- You want to nest subnotes and see them all on one map
Side by side
Checked against CollaNote’s own website in September 2026.
| Feature | Strawberry Notes | CollaNote |
|---|---|---|
| Works on | ||
| Works on | iPad and iPhone. Android, Windows, and Mac coming soon | iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Macs |
| Price | ||
| Price | $19.99 a year (7 days free), $4.99 a month, or $39.99 once | Free. Premium is $13.90 once, often on sale |
| Handwriting | ||
| Handwriting | Yes:Smooth, realistic-looking ink with pens, pencil, highlighter, study tape, and shape recognition | Yes:50+ pens and brushes, with shape recognition |
| Page style | ||
| Page style | Yes:Infinite notebook or infinite whiteboard, with infinite zoom and templates | Pages, with 180+ paper templates |
| Write on PDFs | ||
| Write on PDFs | Yes:Write on PDFs and scans, or read side by side | Yes:Also opens PowerPoint and Word files |
| Typed notes | ||
| Typed notes | Yes:Text boxes mixed in with your handwriting. Full typed docs coming soon | Yes:Text boxes on the page |
| Record audio | ||
| Record audio | No:Not yet | Yes:Recordings linked to your writing |
| Flashcards | ||
| Flashcards | Yes:Built in, with FSRS spaced repetition, image occlusion, and Anki import | Partly:Flashcards and shared decks. No spaced repetition or image occlusion that we could find |
| AI study tools | ||
| AI study tools | Yes:Chat, summaries, study guides, games, and quizzes with matching, fill-in-the-blank, and ordering questions. Free starter credits, then pay only for what you use | Partly:Handwritten math solver and translation. No AI quizzes |
| Tasks | ||
| Tasks | Yes:Tasks and reminders for every class, with a calendar coming soon | Partly:Planner and to-do templates |
| Organize and link | ||
| Organize and link | Yes:Subjects, folders, subnotes, tags, links, backlinks, and Sky View, a map of your notes | Partly:Links between pages. No subnotes or map that we could find |
| Works offline | ||
| Works offline | Yes:Yes. Everything saves on your device first, then syncs to your other devices through iCloud | Yes:Core features work offline |
| Where your notes live | ||
| Where your notes live | Yes:Your device, plus your own iCloud if you want it. Back up your whole library as one file anytime. We can't read your notes | Your device and iCloud |
| Share and work together | ||
| Share and work together | Partly:Publish a note, or export it as a .sbnote file, to share it. Live editing isn't here yet | Yes:Live, with as many people as you like |
Why Strawberry Notes
Everything for school, in one simple app
Notes, flashcards, and tasks live together, and docs and a calendar are on the way. Every subject, folder, and subnote gets its own notes, flashcards, and tasks, so nothing gets lost between apps.
- Notes
- Flashcards
- Tasks
- Docs (soon)
- Calendar (soon)
Notes that connect like your brain does
Link any note to any other, nest subnotes as deep as you like, and zoom in forever. Sky View shows it all as a map. You're free to think your way instead of going page by page.
Private by design
Your library lives on your devices, and we can't read it. iCloud sync is optional: keep everything on one device if you like, and export your whole library as one file anytime to back it up or bring it back in. Handwriting recognition runs on your device. AI only sees what you choose to share, and we don't store your chats.
Coming from CollaNote?
Export your CollaNote notebooks as PDFs, then import them into Strawberry Notes. You can keep writing right on the pages, and pull the important bits out into flashcards.
DownloadQuestions people ask
If you mainly use CollaNote to study, yes. Strawberry Notes adds flashcards with FSRS spaced repetition and image occlusion, AI quizzes and study guides from your notes, linked notes and subnotes, and an infinite notebook and whiteboard. If you need live collaboration or love planners and stickers, CollaNote is the better fit.
CollaNote has flashcards and a shared deck library, but we couldn't find spaced repetition scheduling. Strawberry Notes schedules every review with FSRS, the modern algorithm Anki also offers.
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Sources: CollaNote on the App Store, collanote.com. Prices are in US dollars and can change, so check before you buy.
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